4/11/13 12:35 PM EDT

White House press secretary Jay Carney dismissed rapper Jay Z's claim that he spoke to the White House to get approval for a recent trip to Cuba.

"I guess nothing rhymes with Treasury," Carney said during his daily briefing Thursday.

As he said earlier in the week, Carney again said that the Treasury Department was responsible for approving the trip and said that "from the president on down," no one at the White House was involved in approving the trip.

In a rap released Thursday, Jay-Z said: “I turned Havana into Atlanta…Boy from the hood, I got White House clearance…Obama said, ‘Chill, you gonna get me impeached. You don’t need this s—t anyway, chill with me on the beach.’”

When pressed on whether Obama spoke with Jay-Z about Cuba at all, Carney insisted he did not.

"It’s a song," he said. "The president did not communicate with Jay-Z over this trip."

Florida Republican lawmakers Sen. Marco Rubio and Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen have critizied Jay-Z and Beyonce's trip to the communist island, and asked the administration to explain why they were allowed to go.